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Economic Identities: Four Paths Out of the “Iron Cage”

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2016
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dc.abstract.plThis paper discusses ways out of an approach adopted in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which I refer to as instrumental rationalism (pl. racjonalizm instrumentalny). It was to determine, inter alia, the place occupied by humans within an organization construed as a machine in the self-proclaimed modern era. It is one in which the substance of what we refer to as “here and now” is determined by rationality, functionality, utility, usability, effectiveness and effciency. This approach was best captured by Max Weber’s metaphor of the “iron cage” (German “Stahlhartes Gehause”, translated as “iron cage” by Talcott Parsons), although Weber himself refers to “like a light cloak, which can be thrown away any moment [...] shell as hard as steel” (Weber, 1994, p. 181).
dc.contributor.affiliationKozminski University
dc.contributor.authorWitold Morawski
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-25T15:59:49Z
dc.date.available2025-07-25T15:59:49Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.published2016
dc.description.issue4
dc.description.physical2-9
dc.description.volume24
dc.identifier.doi10.7206/jmba.ce.2450-7814.179
dc.identifier.issn2658-0845
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/handle/item/1533
dc.languageen
dc.relation.ispartofCentral European Management Journal
dc.relation.pages2-9
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dc.subjectinstrumental rationalism
dc.subjectmetaphor of the “iron cage”
dc.title

Economic Identities: Four Paths Out of the “Iron Cage”

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